The Pennsylvania State Archives holds thousands of cubic feet of records relating to the railroad industry. These include privately acquired Manuscript Groups devoted to particular transportation and manufacturing compaines such as the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Baldwin Locomotive works, as well as Record Groups of state government agency documents relating to railroad regulation.

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If you have questions about railroad records please contact our railroad archivist. Due to the complex nature of the collections and the searching strategies, email is the most efficient means of exchanging questions and answers with archives staff about rail-related topics.